General noncompliance with the privacy, security, and transaction regulations result in in $100 fine per violation, up to $25,000 per violation for identical violations in a calendar year. Specific to the Privacy Rule , a $50,000 fine and imprisonment for one year for intentional disclosures.
The brief, decisive war with Spain transformed the United States into a two-ocean empire. In addition to occupying Cuba, Washington annexed Puerto Rico and Hawaii and seized control of Guam and the Philippines.
As unrest in Cuba escalated in the 1890s the United States demanded reforms that Spain was unable to accomplish. The result was the short successful SpanishâAmerican War of 1898, in which United States acquired Puerto Rico, and set up a protectorate over Cuba.nited States signed up the major countries as allies against Germany and Japan in World War II. Argentina, however, refused to cooperate; the diplomatic tensions died down after the war. The turn of Castro's revolution in Cuba after 1959 toward Soviet communism alienated the United States.